Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

James Rowland, 90th Foot

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Martinique, Guadaloupe (James Rowland, 90th Foot) light edge bruising, otherwise very fine
£1200-1400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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Provenance: Baldwin, January 1931; Needes Collection, sold Glendining, July 1940; Glendining, September 1963.

James Rowland was born in the Parish of St Peter’s, Nottingham, and enlisted into the 90th Foot on 21 December 1802, a Framework Knitter by trade. He served with the 90th for a little over 17 years, before being transferred to a Royal Veteran Battalion on 4 March 1820, from which he was discharged on 24 July 1821, aged 37.

Sold with copied discharge papers.